Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Olafur Arnalds - Eulogy for Evolution

两年后翻出听,还是喜欢。

不安消融,伤痛抚平。眼前之景,弥足珍惜。

音乐于我,更是意象的东西。钢琴是流淌的思绪,大提琴是低吟的沉静,手琴是铺张的舞蹈,风笛是凄婉的爱情。

于是还是最爱3055,暴风雨后总有阳光。



#Why numbers

Tracks:

0040
0448/0729
0952
1440
1953
3055
3326
3704/3837

Q: At the end of last year, you released your first album, Eulogy For Evolution. On it, all the track names were numbers, with no apparent sequence to them. What was the meaning of these, and is this part of a concept for the whole album?
  
A: Yes the numbers are a part of the whole concept of Eulogy For Evolution. It's pretty hard to explain it in a written interview where I don't have the album artwork to show you what I am talking about. But I never meant for people to completely understand this, I think that most people get that this is somehow connected to the pictures in the booklet and that's enough really. The album is a story, and I imagine the pictures inside the booklet being shot at certain points in the story, and the numbers are actually the times (minutes and seconds) in the album that I imagine the image being shot at. When I was working on the album it wasn't divided into tracks, it was just one long track, so the numbers refer to the time that has passed of the whole album - not each track. So for example 3055 refers to the picture I imagine to be shot at 30 minutes and 55 seconds into the whole album, and when I divided the album into tracks, this picture turned out to be in track six, so that's why track six is called 3055.

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